Wurzburg 1626-1631
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- Wurzburg 1626-1631
- took place during the Thirty Years' War
- Time of instability
- Conflict of both the religious and political kind causing tensions
- Saw the rise of Sweden and France, and the decline of HRE as Europe's central power
- teaches us that religious stability is vital for keeping conflicts at bay
- Thought that 157 men, women and children were burnt at the stake
- Most were beheaded beforehand (which is very unusual)
- Even children as young as 3 were accused showing the hunts got out of hand
- About 900 were killed across the whole of the prince-bishopric
- Key People
- Holy Roman Emperor
- had the power to control what was happening throughout the area to an extent
- He could assassinate leaders causing the forces great losses and thereby control which territories had the most power
- Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn
- Prince-bishop of Wurzburg before the hunts
- Matter of the church were important to him
- promoted Jesuits and re-opened the university of Wurzburg
- the university became a model for the counter-reformation and future institutions
- Banished all Lutheran preachers from his territory
- Public officials had to be Catholic
- Began courses for non or lapsed Catholics
- Within 3 years 100,000 had returned to the Catholic faith
- Saw the witch-hunts as a battle between good and evil
- Died before the hunts began
- However, he enforced the Catholic faith into the Wurzburg people and enforced the belief that Catholicism was the best
- he made the people of Wurzburg eager to create a purely Catholic state
- However, he enforced the Catholic faith into the Wurzburg people and enforced the belief that Catholicism was the best
- Phillip Adolf von Ehrenberg
- Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg during the hunts
- oversaw the hunts
- Controlled them and kept them running
- After his death, the hunts stopped
- Controlled them and kept them running
- leader of the Counter-reformation movement
- After his death, the hunts stopped
- Holy Roman Emperor
- The Trials
- the trials started in territory surrounding the city
- victims soon reached those from all of society, including nobles, councilmen and mayors
- great hysteria from 1626-1631
- no one was safe from accusations, including those of high status, those high up in the church, and even young children
- People's sense of reality was removed. people were solely focused upon removing all witches
- the witch-hunts were wide-ranging and brutal in the tortures and punishments brought upon those accused
- many of those executed were not named
- the trials started in territory surrounding the city
- End of the Wurzburg Hunts
- the hunts stopped after the death of von Ehrenberg in 1631
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
- He replaced von Ehrenberg
- Put a stop to the hunts
- Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld
- A Jesuit
- Famous for his opposition to torture, particularly of suspected witches
- saw that all confessions were worthless as they had been made under torture and not a single witch who he had led to the stake had been guilty
- took place during the Thirty Years' War
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